To want to ban the use of certain words

"resting on a bed of creamed spinach"
A bed of spinach is usually in the garden firmly rooted in soil

Learning curve
I've been on one of those since I joined GN 2old4hotpants

Oh at last! Another hater of "at this moment in time"! You've made my day!

Why do words that used to end in 'ism' now end in 'ality?'

Professionalism is now professionality

Oh rosequaetz. I so agree about resting on a bed of! I think restaurants are doing that a bit less often now but it has always irked me.

"Bear me a moment"
(arrggghh!!!)

This is morphing into pedants' corner !

Let's touch base.

"and yeah" used in conversation at the end of a dialogue. Makes me want to scream "and yeah WHAT"

On trend,in branch, (refering to banks)

And any one of the thousands who finish their sentence with an upward inflection. Grrr. It's not a question!

I'd like to ban nasty words, unpleasant and unkind ones- life's too short to get ariated about words- but a smile and a laugh is fine- but language is full of humour, and evolves all the time.

That's a bit Rebecca of sunnybrook farm, granjura

Great or marvellous

said by the person on the phone when all you have done is give them the details they asked for.

Must haves - what happens if you don't have it? -end of the world?

I hear what you say

It hasn't arrived in Britain yet (has it?) but no doubt will: "my bad", meaning my mistake, or sorry. I told my American niece to say "mea culpa" if she wanted to be posh.

As a self-confessed pedant, I heartily concur with everything posted here, especially how ANNOYING it is to hear "like" in every sentence (sentence? What's that?) Here in Scotland the verb "to say" has been replaced by "to be": "I was like..", "then she was like". Arrrrgh. Do the English do this too? Worst of all is when middle-aged people speak like this, perhaps in an effort to communicate to teenagers. (Or just to sound younger??)

Oh yes 'my bad' certainly has arrived in the UK,*leurMamie*.

I don't think it's taken off in that big a way over here though (thank goodness!

Should of instead of should have
On the weekend instead of at the weekend
Cool meaning that's fine
I'm good instead of I'm fine

The list is endless...........

Some people just love 'getting down with the kids'

"No problem" in response to a simple request. Quite often I will say that I didn't know there was a problem!!

"Fantastic" when it isn't; "y'know" when I don't; "I'm good" in answer to "How are you?". But then I'm a pedant.

'Sneak peek', or worse still, 'sneak peak'. Just because it rhymes doesn't make it true - this always means 'carefully orchestrated early press release'.

'Naughty but nice' - I'm not going to spoil something nice by having negative thoughts about it, thank you. They should just say 'has chocolate and/or cream in it'. Or Bailey's.

Related phrase: 'Go on, spoil yourself'. What are you spoiling by enjoying something, often something with cream or chocolate. Or Bailey's. If the other person really thinks you're about to break the scales or succumb to liver disease, they shouldn't offer it to you. What they really mean is that if you refuse it, you will feel guilty if they have whatever it is themselves.

Absolutely.....

Male/female toilets. Sanitary ware is genderless, in our language at least!